We would like to wish all of you a very
Happy New Year and share with you a little about what we’ve been up
to in 2003.

Sadie has grown from a new walker to a
running, jumping, climbing talker! She has an amazing vocabulary, speaks
in full sentences,
knows all her colors
and a few letters and numbers. An infatuation with “Elmo” and the
other Sesame Street characters has developed, but she is also making lots of “real” friends
in preschool and through a neighborhood playgroup we organized this fall.

David was granted tenure and promotion
to Associate Professor in the University of New Mexico’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department last spring.
He was also awarded several very large multi-institution research grants from
the National Science Foundation, been elected chair of the IEEE Technical Committee
for Parallel Processing and has travelled from coast to coast in support of
those activities. David’s research is in high-performance computing,
computational biology and collaborating with IBM on the design of their next-generation
supercomputer.

We travelled to France last April (Sadie
stayed in Albuquerque with Sara’s
parents), visiting David’s brother’s family in Paris and spending
a week on the French Riviera in Nice. David helped organize a conference there
that he will be chairing this year in Santa Fe, NM.

Sara’s work on endangered fishes
in the southwest continues, and she is a Principal Investigator on a project
to develop a
web-based interface for
a set of long-term data from the Four Corners area. In addition, she is actively
involved in the documentation of the decline of the Rio Grande silvery minnow.

We are looking forward to an exciting 2004 and wish the same for you.

Love,
Sara, David, and Sadie Rose
(Visit us on the web at: http://bader-gottlieb.net)